Boiling Ambusher

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Charan wrote:

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Fayul wrote:

Side note: if we get a cd on coldsnap why don't they???

Because life's not fair. Even a fake one on a continent full of things that want to kill you.

I know, I know, but i really hate cd's.

It should show how much i hate those buggers that I'd wish such a fate upon them..............

(all sarcasm aside, dont change a thing, i like hating those guys, gives the game flavor and gives me something to do)

Doing a map yesterday with +70% larger mobs, 2 boiling ambusher mobs in the same room, Was like a minigun of cold snaps! gotta love 75% cold res!

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Torin wrote:

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anubite wrote:

These monsters are very gear-dependent, if you don't have 75% cold resist they will smash your face in and perma freeze you.

It's pretty rough when you start a new map and these things just appear out of nowhere. My Shadow usually only walks around with 50% CR and a ring I carry around to switch into for cold enemies. But sometimes these things pop up and I'm not ready and get frozen over and over. But once I don the ring, they're push overs.

It is not only CR that affects if the freeze you but you max life. More max life and you need less CR to not get frozen. Not sure if ES protects against freeze in any way.

Oh right, I forgot about the effect of max life. Yah energy shield is irrelevant here. With Chaos Inoculation (CI), the max life used for such calculations is the max life you would have if you didn't have CI- ie abysmally low. No wonder my witch gets in trouble with these guys.

EDIT: and also why my mara just laughs at them :)

In my experience you don't even need maxed Cold Resistance. Just don't rely on zero or some sub 20% amount from a random piece of equipment.

Then again my habit is highly defensive builds that have the HP and/or Energy Shield to back up the sub-maximum resistance.

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Charan wrote:

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Fayul wrote:

Side note: if we get a cd on coldsnap why don't they???

Because life's not fair. Even a fake one on a continent full of things that want to kill you.

Yeah, but Charan.. life is not being programmed by GGG.

I kinda wish it was though. Life would still have depth and tons of customization, but it's systems would be a lot more brilliant, plus our currency would have built in anti-inflation properties and we could just re-roll our clothing when we needed a new wardrobe.

I mean.. um..

So like many people, I used to greatly fear the Boiling Ambusher. (even though from very early on I have always kept a "dispels frozen and chilled" flask on slot 4)

But now if I have any trouble with them, I just portal to town and slap on a couple cold resist rings. (I also temporal chains the F out of everything I fight) Even better would be to carry 2 or 3 resist rings in your inventory so you can easily adapt to the enemies you face. I mean, they only take up 1 space each. What would you put in that space anyway? Yet another transmutation orb? xD